The new app, called Candl, puts your contacts’ birthdays into a single calendar where you can track and sort through upcoming birthdays, as well as see whose astrological sign you’re most compatible with, as reported by TechCrunch.
Candl can also help you “grow your birthday network.” If you don’t have a contact’s birthday, but one of your mutual friends does, their birthday will surface in your app.
If you thought Samsung’s more affordable flip phone felt like an afterthought during yesterday’s Unpacked, apparently so did every major US carrier. SamMobile points out that none of Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T lists the FE, and even Samsung’s own site only offers the phone unlocked.
In fact, the only US provider we’ve found offering the FE is Boost Mobile — maybe that’s what it meant when it announced it’s a real carrier now?
In a letter to the FCC, T-Mobile executive Mark Nelson confirms that the company is “ending its DEI-related policies... not just in name, but in substance.” He adds that the carrier “will no longer have any individual
roles or teams focused on DEI.”
Earlier this year, T-Mobile updated mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on its website to appease FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who said he would not approve mergers — like T-Mobile’s joint venture deal with Lumos — if companies have DEI-related policies.
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Doesn’t look like we’ll get a trifold tease as a “one more thing” thing here. Guess there’s always January...
There’s one more flip phone this year and this “Fan Edition” didn’t exactly get a big spot in the presentation. It’s $899, which sure, that’s a few hundred bucks cheaper than the Z Flip 7. But its... not that cheap? I dunno. It exists.
The bigger front screen on the Galaxy Z Flip 7 makes space for my favorite new lock screen feature: a clock the gets dynamically shorter and longer depending on your wallpaper photo. It’s on iOS 26 too, so I guess Long Clock is officially a trend.
That’s the starting price for the Z Fold 7, which goes up for pre-order starting now. Better hope those trade in deals are strong!
We are two years into the era of AI on phones and I’m just going to say it: I don’t need any more explanations about how AI can generate useful summaries of text for you. I get it! Let’s just take this for granted and not trot it out at every product launch, please? Anyway, the new foldables have lots of AI. Again.
Android and Pixel boss Rick Osterloh is here to talk about Gemini on Samsung phones. He’s plugging Circle to Search getting access to AI mode, plus Gemini Live on the Z series. Samsung and Google are good friends, Google and Samsung would like us to remember.
The newest Fold is the thinnest Samsung foldable ever, and Samsung calls it an “ultra” experience... without actually calling it an Ultra phone. Weird! But it really is super thin!
